Ankenes Municipality
Ankenes is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The 2,028-square-kilometre municipality existed from 1884 until 1974. It encompassed most of the present-day Narvik Municipality, surrounding of the town of Narvik which was once its own municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: former municipality in Nordland, Norway
- Also known as: “Ankenesstrand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ankenes Church and Narvik.
Ankenes Church
Church
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Ankenes Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Ankenesstranda.
Narvik
Railway station
Narvik is a railway station located in Narvik Municipality in Nordland, Norway on the Ofoten Line. The station is located about 3.7 kilometres from the end of the line at the Port of Narvik. Narvik is situated 4 km northeast of Ankenes Municipality.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Håkvik and Narvik.
Håkvik
Village
Håkvik or Ginnasluokta is a village in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located along the southern shore of the Ofotfjorden, southwest of the town of Narvik and the village of Ankenesstranda. Håkvik Chapel was built here in 1980. Håkvik is situated 3 km west of Ankenes Municipality.
Narvik
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Narvik is a city in Nordland in northern Norway. The town of Narvik has a population of about 14,000, while the entire municipality has a population of about 18,000.
Ankenes Municipality
- Category: former municipality of Norway
- Location: Narvik Municipality, Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
68.4154° or 68° 24′ 55″ northLongitude
17.37998° or 17° 22′ 48″ eastElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
9FWVC98H+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 9884378155OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Ankenes Municipality” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Ankenes”
- Danish: “Ankenes Kommune”
- Dutch: “Ankenes”
- Irish: “Ankenes”
- Northern Sami: “Oŋká”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ankenes kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ankenes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ankenes kommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ankenes”
- Norwegian: “Ankenes”
- Romanian: “Comuna Ankenes”
- Russian: “Анкенес”
- Swedish: “Ankenes kommun”
- Turkish: “Ankenes”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ankenes Municipality”. Photo: TorbjørnS, CC BY-SA 4.0.